Reflections from the forgotten frontline: 'The reality for children and staff in residential care' during COVID‐19.
Currently, 78,150 children are in care in England, with 11% of the most vulnerable living in 2,460 residential homes due to multitype traumas. These children require safe and secure trauma‐informed therapeutic care. However, the children's residential care workforce delivering this vital care is an...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 212 - 225 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2022
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